"Mere Domination - On Dick Cheney (1941–2025)"

by #RichardBeck via #NPlusOneMag

"Whatever the war on terror means for history, that is also the meaning of Dick Cheney’s life."

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/politics/mere-domination

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Mere Domination | Richard Beck

“Men make their own history,” Marx wrote, “but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.” That may be broadly true, but Dick Cheney got to make history under the exact circumstances he would have chosen.

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